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Ever since the introduction of HITECH, the health IT market has evolved like a game of Whac-A-Mole. Vendors are constantly reacting to a steady mandate of feature requirements, alternative payment models, quality reporting, and compliance provisions. This reactive cycle perpetuates itself with each policy change. On the surface, one might get the impression that market forces are driving HIT innovation.…

This spring, HGP surveyed approximately 400 private equity funds across all stages and received 94 responses. Responses concentrated toward Venture Capital and Growth Equity investors, who respectively invest in early and earlier stage companies. The distribution of responses across the stages of investing is consistent with the distribution of investment activity across the company lifecycle. While…

The United States is the largest economy in the world and has been since 1872. With GDP of $16 trillion, the U.S. comprises over 19 percent of global GDP. Although the size of the economy rivals China, per capita GDP in the U.S. is nearly 5x that in China. The vibrant U.S. venture capital community is responsible for funding 68 percent of the world’s innovations. Nine of the world’s top 10 medical…